Byzantine Chant - 'Inna l Malak' (arabe)

[sigefroi57]

Très inspirant, avec une voix sublime.

[aefh75]

Soeur Kayrouz is Greek Catholic, part of the order of the Soeurs Basiliennes Chouerites. She is singing in Arabic an Eastern Hymen, which you can identify as Byzantine.

I had the honor of listening to her once a week in my school as she was part of the Sisters running our school in Lebanon.

But please see her beauty as a follower of Christ and as someone praising the Most High.

peace on you all :)

[sylvia1808]

belo!!! sou católica oriental. conheçam também a música do brasileiro Urbano Medeiros.

grato a quem postou,

DRA. SYLVIA

[TheOrientalEast]

Ortodoxs chants brought me to oriental music. My childhood was marked by orthodox chants. These days i was thinking and tryed to remember how i got started to love middle east and i know that since my small age i been marked by a specific obsession for holy lands and i always lived with a passion for both ortodoxs christian and arab culture reprezented by Islam.

I really believe in convivencia, it got results if we look at medieval Sicilly.

[meusisto]

Is it possible to have the lyrics?

[donnamariealba]

She is one of my favorite singers in the world!

[bessamemucho55]

it is an arabic music, not byzantin !

[theprof1958]

@bessamemucho55

You are right. I corrected the mistake, but please dont ask me to change the picture...

[bessamemucho55]

@theprof1958 : Thank you !

[AgiosGiorgios]

@theprof1958 Wrong, this is Byzantine, not Maronite. This hymn is used all the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches. That includes the Roum Catholic and Roum Orthodox .

[blindfollower]

@theprof1958 the tune is byzantinean but the words are arabic

[darkdemonded]

@bessamemucho55 it's in arabic yes but by the byzantine ritual..

[Harrycat]

@bessamemucho55 no it's not. It's a greek orthodox hymn, thus no arabic

[fedelius]

@bessamemucho55 Are you certain? The drone is certainly characteristic of Byzantine Chant; however, given the significant exchange between them, it's possible it's a mixture.

[panarkas]

@bessamemucho55 The words are in Arabic, but the melody is a clearly Byzantine mode. I think it is in 3rd echo mode.

[dreacul]

@panarkas Well there's many christian orthodox arabs. Syriacs, Coptics.....

[panarkas]

@dreacul I know, I just anwsered to the guy who said the music is Arabic. They are certainly many similarities between the Byzantine echos and the Arabic maqam modes, but this is a a clearly Byzantine one.

[dreacul]

@panarkas Well offcourse, you're right, but isn't chahargah 4th and not 3rd?

[panarkas]

@dreacul The Turkish chargah is the 3rd. The 4th is closer to the Turkish maqam neva. I am just not sure if the Turkish and the Arabic chahargah are the same. I don't know much about the Arabic maqams, but I guess that they are not as close to the Byzantine modes as the Turkish ones.

[dreacul]

@panarkas Yes, i just know from iranian music that chahargah it means 4 tempo. chahar = 4. Anyway i don't know also very much about maqams, i always missunderstooded them. ^^

[panarkas]

@dreacul I made a search about it and apparently the closest maqam to the 3rd echo is the Turkish Çârgâh. Not sure which is the Arabic equivalent, but it could be Jiharkah if I judge by the name. They are similar to the Byzantine 3rd echo this chant is in, but they still have differences.

[tecarter23]

what does inna l malak mean in english

[darkdemonded]

@tecarter23 The angel...

[Enturbanon]

Thanks for posting. I think Keyrouz' chanting of Inna al-malak is one of the most ecstatic. She takes you into a vast realm of the holy like no other in this chant.

al-Masih qam!

[HexagonalBolts]

This sounds exceptionally similar to Azam Ali's rendition of Inna-I-Malak

[UnknownFromHeaven]

this is my favorite oriental orthodox chant

Praise our Lord and King Jesus Christ! Amen!

[sjokolade777]

@UnknownFromHeaven YES IT IS!

[robertomedico28]

É linda demais essa musica, perfeita a voz dela...